Jean-Baptiste TARDIF

(b. 11 February 1810 , Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 24 December 1884 , St-Joseph-de-Lepage, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste TARDIF was born 11 February 1810 in Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste TARDIF was the child of Raphael TARDIF and Judith BOUCHER and the grandchild of: (paternal) Charles TARDIF and Marie-Anne OUELLET (maternal) Louis BOUCHER and Ursule SERGERIE dite ST-JORRE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean-Baptiste married Josephte DUBE 27 October 1834 in Rimouski, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Josephte DUBE was born 4 September 1816 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Josephte died 2 November 1887 in St-Joseph-de-Lepage, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. Josephte was the child of Francois-Xavier DUBE and Veronique BONENFANT.

Jean-Baptiste TARDIF died 24 December 1884 in St-Joseph-de-Lepage, Rimouski, Quebec, Canada.
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Occupation

Jean-Baptiste TARDIF was a Cultivateur.
The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Jean-Baptiste TARDIF married

Josephte DUBE-- Date: 27 October 1834 Place: Rimouski, Lower Canada

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Josephte DUBE was the child of Francois-Xavier DUBE and Veronique BONENFANT

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Children of Jean-Baptiste TARDIF and Josephte DUBE:

Helene TARDIF (b.17 July 1842, Ste-Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Canada d. 6 May 1931, St-Gabriel-de-Rimouski, Quebec, Canada)
m. Gregoire TREMBLAY 9 January 1865 in Sainte-Flavie, Québec, Canada

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1810 Birth
11 February 1810
Kamouraska, Lower Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1834 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste TARDIF and Josephte DUBE 27 October 1834, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

He was 24 years old.

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Birth of Child
Helene TARDIF was born 17 July 1842, Ste-Anne, Restigouche, Bonaventure, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 32 years old.

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Marriage of Child
Helene TARDIF married 9 January 1865, Sainte-Flavie, Québec, Canada to Gregoire TREMBLAY

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.